Republican Labour Party
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republican-labour-party-161-11379836
title:
Republican Labour Party
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The Republican Labour Party (RLP) was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt. They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of the Socialist Republican Party and the Irish Labour Party respectively, so a common joke was that "two one-man parties had become one two-man party". Fitt won the West Belfast seat in the UK general election of 1966, and held it in the 1970 election. In August 1970, Fitt f
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Northern Irish centre-left republican party active 1964–1973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Labour_Party
date created:
2003-11-16T23:40:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:02:45Z
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